In this project we want to implement in three reference research centers (Babes-Bolyai University, Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry and National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies from Cluj-Napoca) the most performing data bases and searching engines in the field of Chemistry and Physics: Scifinder Scholar, Beilstein-Gmelin and on-line access to a large number of electronic papers.
We intend to buy a 7 points access package for Scifinder and access to electronic scientific publications and 2 working points for Beilstein-Gmelin data base. These 7 points will be assigned 5 to the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering together with Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry and National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies from Cluj-Napoca.
The research teams of all 3 groups associated for the acquisition of the data base access package have remarkable results in the scientific research. In these institutions a large number of researchers are employed (over 300), also a large number of CEEX and CNCSIS programs are running and a big number of young researchers approximately 100 are working.
The performing scientific research can be done only if there is a rapid and efficient access at these data bases. With this project we try to eliminate the handicap that we had until now by the lack of direct access to these databases and to implement the most efficient searching engines for the chemistry and physics and simultaneously with the obtaining of on-line access to a large number of papers. The young researchers must have a coherent and efficient working style, a basic component for this being the access to literature data. In this way the data can be selected and the best solution can be implemented. We consider that the acquisition of the data bases mentioned above will lead to the increasing of the research efficiency from our institutes. The research made in these institutes has maximum priority, Supramolecular chemistry, nanotechnologies, biophysics, environment protection. This research fields can be found also as priorities for the National Development Strategies and in the PNCDI2 priorities program and allow our alignment at the standards imposed for the research institutes from European Union.
The database that we would like to buy the license for is a useful tool and most universities and research institutes in EU have access to these data base. At national level we don’t have official access to them and most of the researchers make their documentation resorting to friends and co-workers abroad.
Will present the performances of the solicitated databases and search tools
SciFinder Scholar TM is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, material science, agricultural science, and more.
With one single source, one can explore scientific information in journals and patent literature from around the world:
- references from nearly 10000 currently published journals and patents from more than 59 active patent issuing authorities
- important scientific discoveries from the present to the mid-1800s
- the latest scientific breakthroughs almost as soon as they are published with references added daily and some patent information as recent as two days ago
- the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information
Features and Benefits
SciFinder Scholar is easy-to-use and enables the research process to be more creative and productive by offering:
- access to current, high-quality scientific information
- links to more relevant journal articles and patent documents than any other source
- content indexed by scientists
- an intuitive interaction
- time-savings with speedy access to more than a century of scientific information
- a novel approach to problem-solving by linking related concepts
Research and academic program is strengthened with SciFinder Scholar. One can explore in many ways:
- scientific principles, how they evolve as new discoveries are made, and how these principles transcend traditional scientific disciplines
- a wealth of information for more than 31 million substances
- by chemical structures or biological sequences
- by substructures and reactions
- by research topic, author, company, substance name
CrossFire Gmelin (Licensed by MDL Information Systems GmbH – Elsevier MDL)
The CrossFire Gmelin database is the world's most comprehensive data collection in organometallic and inorganic chemistry, covering literature from the year 1772 to today.
MDL's partner in the development of CrossFire Gmelin is Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. (GDCh), the German Chemical Society. GDCh is the largest chemistry-related scientific society in continental Europe. It holds the ownership of the data and actively participates in the excerption and the development of CrossFire Gmelin.
The database contains over 2.2 million compounds, more than 1.6 million reactions, and 1.1 million citations, including titles and abstracts from 1995.
CrossFire Gmelin is fully searchable by structures, substructures, and reactions. The data are indexed from 62 journals (See the Annex). With simple queries, more than 800 chemical and physical data fields, including electric, magnetic, thermal, crystal, and physiological data can be accessed to provide relevant answer sets. CrossFire Gmelin answers informatics needs in the material science, catalyst, and semiconductor industries.
CrossFire Gmelin also complements CrossFire Beilstein with organometallic and inorganic content. |
